Class of 1951
Reunion: Friday and Saturday, June 8 and 9. This is the only class that will
hold its reunion
in the spring.

BUD BYLSMA worked with Young
Life for 30 years,
then spent four years as the executive director of HEED Bangladesh, a
Christian development
agency. Bud went on to join the staff of Bethany Presbyterian Church in
Seattle for four years
and then, in 1989, founded and served as president of Northwest
Leadership Foundation. He lives in Seattle.

ROBERT CHEEK and SHIRLEY WELTY CHEEK celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary in
August 2000 with their eight children and their families. Robert has retired
from the active
pastorate but has filled 23 interim pastorates since 1982. The couple lives
in Jasper, Texas.

ELMORE CLYDE is retired after 42 years of involvement in missions. He
lives in Spring
Arbor, Michigan, and writes that he is there because "the kids and grandkids
all live in
Michigan!"

DAVID GARINGER began his career as a part-time minister and
carpenter. He later got
his general contractor's license and built new homes and remodeled homes for
27 years. After
five years as a property manager, he retired at the age of 75. David's wife,
Zelma, taught
school for 30 years. The couple lives in Spokane, Washington.

LAVERNE JOHNSON GENCARELLA resides in San Clemente, California.

DON KERLEE earned a doctorate from the University of Washington
in 1956 and served as a professor at Seattle Pacific for nearly 30 years,
teaching physics and
computer science. From 1974-1979, he was academic dean at Roberts Wesleyan College.
Don and his wife, IVY COXSON KERLEE '50, live in Stanwood,
Washington.

IRIS WEBER MARTIN lives in Edgewood, Washington, and continues to
pastor Dupont Community
Presbyterian Church. She plans to retire in the next few months at age 78,
but writes that she
is "still going strong."

VERN MATTHEWS and JEANNIE TAYLOR MATTHEWS celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary
in August 2000 with a cruise to Alaska. Jeannie writes that they are
"enjoying life at the
beautiful Warm Beach Senior Community" in Stanwood, Washington.

RICHARD MCGINNIS retired from the Episcopal priesthood in 1994. He is
now developing
congregational ministries for couples with marital difficulties. He and his
wife, Phyllis,
live in Hudson, Wisconsin.

PAUL NICHOLAS, a retired Baptist minister, lives in Godfrey,
Illinois. During his career,
he served in four churches in Iowa and Illinois. He now continues
ministering as a pulpit supply.

ROBERT PORTER taught public school for 25 years, served as executive
director of
Aldergate Conference Center, and is now an assistant pastor. He and his
wife, HAZEL PORTER '53,
have two sons and seven grandsons. The live in Sublimity, Oregon.

CARL REED was a professor of music and dean of the fine and
performing arts during his
34-year career at Seattle Pacific. A resident of Seattle, he writes that he
is "enjoying
retirement."

ROBERT REIMAN is retired after a 33-year career in education. He and
EILEEN MARTINSON REIMAN will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary
in 2001. Both
have been involved in church music throughout their marriage. They live in
Helena, Montana.

ROLAND STEWART is the chaplain of the Eighth Air Force Historical
Society, Oregon Chapter.
In October 2000, he attended the society's national reunion in Salt Lake
City, Utah. Roland,
who lives in Bend, Oregon, plans to attend his 50-year class reunion in June
2001. He writes,
"Our granddaughter STACI GOERZ enrolled as a student [at SPU] this
fall. When she
received her room assignment, she found it was the same dorm room her
mother, CAROL STEWART
GOERZ '77, had when she attended SPU."

AUDREY TJEPKEMA THORSEN and her late husband, ANDY THORSEN,
were active in the
Turlock Free Methodist Church in Turlock, California, and what is now the
Sierra Pacific
Conference of the Free Methodist Church. Since Andy's death in 1990, Audrey
has remained active
while enjoying her three grandchildren. Her daughters, MARILYN THORSEN
GLINSKAS '76 and
KAREN THORSEN HAMILTON '80, are graduates of Seattle Pacific, as is
son-in-law DOUGLAS
HAMILTON '80. Audrey resides in Turlock.

LOIS WATSON BEST, the niece of Seattle Pacific's third president,
C. Hoyt Watson, and her husband, HAROLD BEST '38, have traveled
extensively since
he retired as the superintendent of Washington's Peninsula Schools in 1977.
The couple
lives in Gig Harbor, Washington.

MARJORIE MCKEE CADWAL-LADER lives in Great Falls, Montana, where she
tutors at Valley
View School and is active in her church; Christian Women's Club; Church
Women United;
"For the Children," a group which helps at-risk children; and the American
Association of
University Women. Marjorie and her husband, Tom, who died in 1999, have
three daughters and
five grandchildren.

FORBES GILDERSLEEVE is retired after a career as an elementary school
principal. His
wife, JEAN GIBSON GILDERSLEEVE '57, is a retired school counselor. He
writes, "We are
busy with church, community arts, grandchildren and some travel." They live
in Gig Harbor,
Washington.

MARY MCCORKLE HAWLEY and FRED HAWLEY '59 are enjoying
semi-retirement in Edmonds,
Washington. They have four children, including Seattle Pacific alumni
PATTI HAWLEY GRABER '86
and FRED HAWLEY JR. '91. The Hawleys also have 12 grandchildren.

EARLE JOHNSON worked as a physicist and field engineer for the U.S. Air Force
and U.S. Navy, and as a civil service
contractor for 44
years. Now in semi-retirement, Earle works half-time and lives in
Ridgecrest, California.

PAT LANDIS lives in Newberg, Oregon, and is retired after a teaching
career that
included 31 years at the college level and 12 years in public schools. Pat
writes,
"Loved teaching; love retirement."

LENORE IBSEN PETERSON is enjoying retirement, which has included
traveling, spending
time with grandchildren and teaching English as a second language. She is
also a lay member
of the Stephen Ministry, a one-on-one ministry that cares for people in
crisis. Lenore lives
in Lynnwood, Washington.

WANETA THOMPSON SPEED taught home economics for 26 years at Oregon
State School for
the Deaf after learning sign language at Seattle Pacific. Today, Waneta
lives in Salem, Oregon,
and she and her husband are active in Jason Lee United Methodist Church.

DELORES PREUSSLER TAYLOR and RICHARD TAYLOR '55 are
semi-retired after careers in
public education and now work part-time as administrators in their church,
Creekside Evangelical
Free Church in Roseville, California. Delores is involved in women's
ministries, and Richard
serves on the district board of their denomination. They enjoy overseas
travel and visiting their
children and 13 grandchildren in California, New Jersey and Texas. The
Taylors live in
Rocklin, California.

JONNA CHRISTMAN AXELSON and husband PHILIP AXELSON '59 both
serve the First
Covenant Church of Anchorage, Alaska, where they make their home. He is the
pastor,
and she is the minister of music. Jonna writes, "We especially enjoy the
cross-cultural
friendships and beautiful scenery in Alaska."

RICHARD BEDDOE and JOANN HARKNESS BEDDOE '60 live in Red
Bluff, California, where
Richard is pastor of First Christian Church and JoAnn teaches first grade at
Metteer
Elementary School. They anticipate retiring in two to three years.

LUCY PICKTHORN BRIGGS works for Magellan Behavioral Health in Salt
Lake City, Utah,
and is active in Southeast Christian Church. Her husband, Larry, is an
engineer. The couple
lives in Sandy, Utah.

DARLENE BACKLUND BROOKS and husband PHILIP BROOKS '63 were in
pastoral ministry
for 25 years prior to founding a nonprofit organization called
"Families 101," which ministers to
couples and families. Darlene writes, "We love being 'Nana and Papa' to our
two grandchildren." They live in Wenatchee, Washington.

WALTER "BUDD" DISHER and his wife, CAROL DYER DISHER '58, were
missionaries with
Wycliffe Bible Translators in
Colombia, South America.
Since returning to the United States, Carol has continued to work with
Wycliffe, and Walt runs
his own medical management consulting business and teaches in the Keller
Graduate School of
Business. He holds a master's degree from Goddard Graduate Program and is
earning a doctorate
from California Coast University. The Dishers are active in their Christian
and Missionary
Alliance Church in Lilburn, Georgia. They have three children and five
grandchildren,
and live in Snellville.

JAMES FIELDS received a doctorate from the University of Missouri in
1980. He is now
retired and writing two books. His wife, Sally McMillan, is a professor at
the
University of Tennessee in Knoxville,
where the couple
resides. In recently years they have visited Africa and Israel.

ALLAN GOODMANSON and wife KAY VAN BUSKIRK GOOD-MANSON '64 will
relocate this year
from Oakland, California, to Sacramento, California, where Allan will
continue his
cemetery-related work. Kay left full-time teaching in 2000.

JACOB GROSS and ANNETTE UNGER GROSS '57 have put 80,000 miles
on their motor
home since retirement, traveling to Cancun; Boston; Alaska; the Florida
Everglades; Branson
and Estes Park, Colorado; and New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They make their
home in Edmonds,
Washington.

JEAN COMNICK GUGE and her husband, Wayne, were missionaries in the
South Pacific
Islands until 1986. She now teaches third grade on Washington's Olympic
Peninsula in Taholah.
The Guges have two children and six grandchildren, and live in Ocean Shores,
Washington.

JOYBELLE JOHNSON-ERIKS married Paul Eriks in July 1997 after they
reconnected at a
40-year high school reunion planning meeting. In 1998, Joybelle retired as a
psychologist and
counselor for the Seattle Public Schools. She has one son and two
grandchildren, travels and
is "loving life." Joybelle and Paul live in Seattle.

MARILYN RICKER MEBERG has been a featured speaker with "Women of
Faith" nationwide
conferences. She is also the author of I'd Rather Be Laughing and Choosing
the Amusing. A
grandmother of two boys, Marilyn lives in California. Her husband, KEN
MEBERG '60, died
in 1990.

DORIS MAIER NOTTER and her husband, RUSSELL NOTTER '60, live
in Grants Pass,
Oregon. She writes that "we would love to attend our 40th reunion," but says
they will be
unable to do so because of the unpredictability of the weather in February.

JANET SEYMOUR OLSON retired in June 2000 after teaching kindergarten
and first grade
in the Wenatchee, Washington, Public Schools for 22 years. In the summer of
1999, she and
husband LEWIS OLSON '59 traveled with friends for three weeks in
England. They enjoy
time with their three grandchildren and live in Wenatchee.

RUSS OLSON has retired from teaching twice, first from Bethel High
School in 1995,
and second from Cascade Christian Junior/Senior High School in 2000. He
writes that he's
currently "living with melanoma cancer in the liver -- doing well." He
resides in Puyallup,
Washington.

JOYCE OLSON PRICE and her husband, John, live on Mercer Island,
Washington. Their
collection of Inuit art -- prints, drawings and sculpture of the Canadian
Eskimos -- was on
exhibit at the Boise State University
Museum during the
summer of 2000.

JEANIE SUPER SMITH is a retired elementary teacher and grandmother of
two. She writes,
"My husband, Gordon, and I travel half-time, seeing the world we were too
busy to see
before retirement." They are active in Highlands Community Church in Renton,
Washington, and
reside in Issaquah.

MARILYN HOOD WEAVER and husband DAVID WEAVER '62 live in
Elizabethton, Tennessee.
She is a homemaker and he is a troubleshooter for computerized school
libraries. They both teach
Sunday School and enjoy American Guild of Organists concerts. The Weavers
write that they
"rejoice in the blessing of our four grandsons."

WRAY WHITESELL has been retired for three years after a 30-year
career as a vocational
rehabilitation specialist. A graduate of Asbury Theological Seminary, he is
an ordained
Free Methodist minister and has pastored churches in the United States and
Canada. Wray now
lives in Seattle.

DARLENE BOGLE has worked at AAA Insurance as an
insurance underwriter, and now as a sales trainer, for 34 years. She writes,
"God is faithful,
and I would love to be there to see how you've all grown in grace, but it is
not to be." Darlene
resides in Hayward, California.

BERTHA MITCHELL BOULLION was recently appointed superintendent of
Muroc Joint Unified
School District in North Edwards, California. She lives in Bakersfield,
California.

PAUL BURROUGHS and KAREN ZELLMER BURROUGHS '69 have retired
from the military
reserves and are now both instructors at the Defense Language Institute at
Lackland
Air Force Base, teaching English as a
second language to
foreign officers. As an Air Force chaplain, Paul also performs weddings at
Randolph Air Force
Base. The Burroughs live in San Antonio, Texas.

DAN DUNGAN retired in 1998 after a 32-year teaching career in the
Seattle Public Schools.
He currently serves as associate pastor at Midway Covenant Church in Des
Moines, Washington. DORIS BERGMAN DUNGAN is a librarian at Puget Sound
Regional Council in Seattle. They have two children, two grandchildren and
live in Auburn, Washington.

ROBERT FOLKESTAD and MARJORIE FLESHER FOLKESTAD '67 live in
Bend, Oregon.

GARETH "GARY" GIBBON and MYRA LEE WELLS GIBBON '62 live in
Edmonds, Washington.
In 1999, Gary retired from Boeing after 25 years. The couple's three
children all work in
education fields, including LANCE GIBBON, a 2000 recipient of a
master's degree from SPU.

ELLEN LEGG HANSEN moved from Lincoln City, Oregon, to Stanwood,
Washington, after the
death last year of her husband, WILLIAM HANSEN '56, the former dean
of Seattle Pacific's
School of Humanities. In Stanwood, Ellen lives near family members,
including her parents, who
are in their 90s, two young granddaughters, and six great-grandchildren.

JEAN HARRIS-MARKS completed her master of social work degree in 1971
at the
University of Washington and earned
a doctorate in
1998 at the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill. She now
teaches anthropology and culture, gender studies and global studies at Highline Community
College. Jean lives in Seattle.

GAIL DAHL LOUDEN married Charles Louden in July 1968. They have two
children,
including CYNTHIA LOUDEN, who graduated from SPU in 1996. Gail and
Charles live in
Port Orchard, Washington.

CAL NETTERFIELDRENEE
RENANDO NETTERFIELD '66, have three children and five grandchildren --
"soon to be six,"
he writes. The couple lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

GLORIA CHAMBERLAIN OOSTMEYER and her husband live in Dillon, Montana.
She works in a
restaurant and teaches young children at First Baptist Church. Gloria
writes, "We live on the
same block as eight of our grandkids, so we have fun with them."

JUDY HUMPHREYS POQUETTE is a self-employed seamstress with Poquette's
Fabrication.
She makes window treatments. Judy has one son and two grandsons, and lives
in Renton, Washington.

LINDA NORQUIST REEDER is a reading teacher in the Highline School
District in
SeaTac, Washington. Her husband, THOMAS REEDER, who earned a master's
degree from
SPC in 1973, has retired after teaching for 37 years. The Reeders have two
children and
live in SeaTac.

GAYLA STACY SHERLUND has been writing songs and singing them a
cappella. She is
now learning to play the guitar. When her husband had cancer, Gayla wrote
and performed a
song for the cancer center where he was being treated. She lives in
Camptonville, California.

KATHY VOHLAND retired from Washington's Oak Harbor School District in
1996. She moved
to Corvallis, Oregon, in 1997 and is currently the director of education for
Sylvan Learning Center.

ANNE AYERS is retired from NASA. A
counselor, educator,
psychologist, inventor and businesswoman, she is listed in the Marquis
Who's Who in America
and Marquis Who's Who in the World. Anne lives in Martinsburg, West
Virginia.

ROGER BUSH is serving his third term in the Washington State House of
Representatives,
elected in 1996. CHERYL STEUERNAGEL BUSH has worked for the Puyallup
School District
since 1985 and has exhibited artwork in regional art competitions. The
couple lives in
Tacoma, Washington.

JEANNE WALTERS DAHLKE taught preschool and Headstart, and
home-schooled her two
daughters, for 10 years. Recently she worked on Census 2000 as a recruiter.
Jeanne's husband,
Tom, is a mason. They live in Antigo, Wisconsin.

SANDRA NELSON DOBDAY works part-time in a public library. She and her
husband, Mark,
have three children and reside in Medway, Maine.

FLOYD FRY is an assistant principal in the Clark County Schools in
Nevada. He lives
in Las Vegas.

BARBARA KELLEY MOSES GALLAGHER lives in Kalispell, Montana. She
founded the Education
Recovery Foundation in 1991 and is its director. She is also the founder and
chair of
Flathead County Peer Court, and served on Kalispell City Council for six
years. In addition
to her work with community and state organizations, Barbara is active in
church. Her husband,
Larry, works for Housing and Urban Development (HUD). They have six children
and eight
grandchildren.

WALLY HACKETT has worked for Trans
World Airlines (TWA)
for more than 27 years in customer service and sales positions. He writes,
"I currently manage
our city ticket office in Costa Mesa, California, and plan to retire in the
near future, possibly to a second
career." Wally lives in Los Angeles.

KEN HAGEN and DIANE BULLER HAGEN live in Chattanooga,
Tennessee, where he is a
business owner and she is a housewife. They have two children.

LUANN LESTER MCBRIDE is an ordained minister in the Nazarene Church
and serves full-time
as a hospital chaplain in Olympia, Washington. She is also the co-founder of
"Good Mourning,"
a center for grief and life transitions. Luann is married to Paul McBride,
also a minister, and
she is the stepmother to three children and five grandchildren. The McBrides
lives in Lacey,
Washington.

SYLVIA WIGHT MEYER teaches music in Orland, California, and plays
viola in two string
quartets. She writes, "I have enjoyed those summer 'Orff' workshops at SPU."
Sylvia lives in
Chico, California.

DARRELL MOORE and JANICE MIKKELBORG MOORE have worked in
education in Alaska for
nearly 30 years. They write, "We were blessed with a unique life, working
with Alaska native
youth." They live in Tenakee Springs, Alaska, and Manson, Washington.

MARGARET MACK NELSON and her husband served as missionaries with the
Free Methodist Church
in Hong Kong for 19 years. They have now completed their work there and
have returned to the
United States. The Nelsons, who anticipate other missionary service in the
future, live in
Scotts Valley, California.

JUDY JENSEN PAUL has taught English in Moses Lake, Washington, for 30
years. She earned
a master's degree from Gonzaga University in 1992. Judy's husband of 25
years, Fred, is also a
teacher. The couple has two children and attends the First Presbyterian
Church in Moses Lake,
where Judy has served as an elder and is currently the moderator of the
board of deacons.

RON PETERSON is a senior engineer at IBM-Rochester in
Minnesota. SHERYL CARLSON PETERSON works part-time as a secretary at Salem
Road Covenant Church.
They have two adult children and live in Rochester.

TILLIE BLIEGE PORTER taught in the Seattle Public Schools for 26
years. Today, she's the
help-desk manager at Northwest College in Kirkland, Washington. She and
husband Cal live in
Shoreline, Washington.

RUSS ROWLEE spent nine years as an Air Force navigator, followed by
17 years as a
Boeing engineer and manager. For the
past three years,
he's been the director of avionics engineering for AT&T Wireless Services.
Russ lives in Seattle.

JIM STEWART and KATHY GLASS STEWART live in University Place,
Washington, and
homeschool the two youngest of their four children. Jim works half-time as a
consultant for
Character First Corporation and works half-time as a physician at Cottesmore
Nursing Home.
The Stewarts have two grandchildren.

JANET BRIGGS STONE is working toward a master's degree in business
administration and
has two grown children. Since remarrying in 1998, she lives in Tampa,
Florida.

PETER TAM and BEVERLY LIM TAM saw their son, ADRIEL
TAM, graduate from SPU
in 1998. Peter works for the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission
and writes that he's "seriously engaged in ballroom dancing, scuba diving
and music recording
in a home studio." The Tams live in Bethesda, Maryland.

KEN THORNBERG and his wife, Sylvia, live in Boise, Idaho. The
founders of
Freedom Encounter, a parachurch
ministry,
they preach and teach full-time in the United States and overseas.

PAUL TICE is the principal of Yuba City Charter School in California.
He makes his home
in Yuba City.

BRUCE TRAUB is now a financial advisor after a 22-year career as a
faculty member and
administrator in Christian colleges. Two of his three children, ESTHER
TRAUB KUELKER '90
and senior KRISTEN TRAUB, have attended SPU. Bruce and his wife,
Carolyn, live in Fresno, California.

DEBORAH WITTIG writes, "I have been a missionary with OMS International
for 26 years and am presently serving the Lord by teaching missionary kids
at
Wesley International Schools in Malang, East Java, Indonesia." She lives in
Malang.

LARRY ANDERSON and his wife, Ann, have been married for 25 years and
have two children.
They live in Kansas and Larry writes that he can be reached by e-mail
at landers@centralchristian.edu.

MELISSA GWINN ASSINK is a registered nurse who works part-time with
Providence Homecare and Hospice of Snohomish County, Washington. Her
husband,
PHILIP ASSINK '77, is the pastor of Faith Community Church in
Edmonds, Washington.
They have two teen-age children and live in Edmonds.

JOELL BONG taught in a Christian school for eight years, worked in a
residential
drug/alcohol treatment center for three years and has now worked at
Boeing Employees Credit Union for more
than nine years.
Joell lives in Seattle.

GARY BUMA is the cash manager for Western Washington University (WWU)
in Bellingham, Washington, and NINA FORD BUMA is program assistant
for WWU's Elementary
Education Department. They live in Bellingham and have three sons, including
BRIAN BUMA,
an SPU sophomore.

CELESTE CARLISLE CLAUSON is an endocrinologist at the Polyclinic
in Seattle. JOHN CLAUSON is the corporate vice president of CR Bard,
a medical device
manufacturer. The couple has three children and lives in Seattle.

THOMAS DERPACK lives in Bothell, Washington, and owns a mortgage
company in Edmonds.
His wife, Judy, teaches preschool. They have four daughters, including
JENELLE DERPACK,
an SPU senior.

SHERYL ERICKSON EMRA and husband JOHN EMRA '75 live in Los
Angeles, California.
John has been a missionary for 20 years and is currently City Teams
Ministries' director of
ministry. Since 1986, he's worked with Hispanic gangs and their families in
the Los Angeles
inner city.

LYNNE HANSEN HALL and KEN HALL '77 live in Redmond,
Washington, where he owns a
window and door business. Lynne recently left the staff at Timberlake
Christian Fellowship for
a new position in the Alumni Office at SPU. The Halls have three children,
including son
CHRIS HALL, an SPU freshman.

NICKI GREGOR ISAACSON is a neurology/neurosurgery nurse consultant at
Wenatchee Valley Clinic in Wenatchee, Washington. Her husband, Scott, is a
general contractor.
They have three children and live in Wenatchee.

PATRICIA BURTON KREMENSEK and her husband, Brad, have two children
and live in Sheridan,
Wyoming. They opened Three Peaks Christian School for grades 8 through 12 in
1995. Patricia
teaches Bible and history classes, and Brad is school administrator.

SARAH GACKLE MANKE and DAVID MANKE '72 live in East Wenatchee,
Washington, and
have three daughters. Sarah has worked part-time for more than 22 years in
graphic arts and
bookkeeping, but she is now a stay-at-home mother to their 3-year-old
daughter. David owns
several businesses, including Dave's Transmission and The Alignment Shop.

KELLY MARTINSON and her partner, K.R. Davis, live in Billings,
Montana. Kelly stays at
home with her young son and daughter.

DEBRA WALZ SMERAGLIO is a dental hygienist and works with low-income
children during
the school year. Her husband, George, works for Standard Tires, flies Lear
jets part-time,
and is a lieutenant colonel in the Oregon Air Guard. They have two children
and live in Milwaukie, Oregon.

FRANK TROTH has been a systems analyst at the Boeing Company
in Seattle for 22 years. He and wife Celia live in Shoreline, Washington,
and have two children.
They are active in the United Evangelical Free Church. Frank writes that his
hobbies include
"C.S. Lewis, hiking, photography."

RICH TYAS lives in Seattle, where he remodels historic houses with
Tangent Construction
and establishes dot-com businesses at Tangent Fun. His wife, Kay, was
recently ordained a deacon
in the United Methodist Church. They have one daughter.

JEWEL VAN VALIN has been a flight attendant for Delta Airlines
(formerly Western Airlines) for 23 years. She is based in Los Angeles and
lives in Solvang,
California.

STEVE WHEELER lives in Hersey, Michigan. For 17 years, he has been an
adoption services
supervisor at a nonprofit social services agency. Steve has two sons.

GAIL WIELDRAAYER is self-employed, teaching music readiness classes
for 4-7-year-olds.
She also serves as a church musician at the First Reformed Church in Oak
Harbor, Washington,
where she makes her home.

VIRGINIA EVANS WINCKLER is an assistant director of an engineering
department. Husband GARY WINCKLER '74 is the head women's track coach
at the
University of Illinois. Residents of
Monticello,
Illinois, the Wincklers celebrated 25 years of marriage in 2000 and have two
children.

TED CHRISTENSEN JR. is the current president of the Washington Music
Educators Association,
the official organization for state music educators. He is also the director
of the Inglemoor
High School Marching Band, Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, as well as the
music program manager
for the Northshore School District. He and his wife, CATHY POGUE
CHRISTENSEN '86, are the
music directors for St. John's Episcopal Church in Kirkland, Washington.
They live with their
two daughters in Bothell.

JIM COURSON serves in a pastoral position and oversees an orphanage
for severely
handicapped children in northern Mexico. He, wife Julie, and their three
children live in
Carmen Serdan, Mexico.

KATHLEEN SMITH CUMMINS lives in Seattle, where she is a senior
portfolio manager at
Salomon Smith Barney. She and her husband, Scott, have two children, love to
travel and are
involved with a Children's Hospital guild.

DOUGLAS HAMILTON and his wife, KAREN THORSEN HAMILTON '80, are
active in their
church, Ballard Free Methodist, and run their general construction company
called IQ
Construction, Inc. They have two children and make their home in Seattle.

INGER HORNE HERMAN writes that she is the "contented manager of three
children, two
dogs, one cat and too many flowerbeds to weed." She and her family live in
Fall City,
Washington.

ANDREA GOODLUND HOEY has been a nurse for the Wenatchee School
District for more than two
years. She's now applying for the family nurse practitioner graduate program
at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Andrea has two sons and
resides in Wenatchee.

MELINDA MCCORMICK JORDAN lives in Clackamas, Oregon, with her
husband, Jack, and their
three daughters. Melinda teaches first grade in North Clackamas School
District and teaches
private piano and flute lessons.

DEBBIE GEORGE MACLURG owns and operates Market Place Vending in
Vancouver, Washington,
where she and her family live. She writes, "People call me the 'Candy
Lady.'" Debbie's husband,
Paul, is the executive pastor of New Heights Church. They have two children.

DON MARTINELL andSUE GILBERT MARTINELL write that they "live
on six quiet acres
with two kids, two dogs, two cats, one sheep and a mountain view." In their
garden they raise a
variety of fruits and vegetables, and they also enjoy hiking and mountain
climbing. The
Martinells' home is in Sultan, Washington.

KENT MCDONALD andLINDA LANGMAS MCDONALD '83 and their three
daughters have returned
to the United States after six years in Nairobi, Kenya, with Young Life.
They are now living in Spokane, Washington, and working with Young Life at
Whitworth College.

PATRICIA CARVER MCRAE is an ordained minister and lives in San Diego,
California.

HEIDI GREEN MICHAELIS is a stay-at-home mother of three, with a
fourth child expected in
February. Her husband, Jim, is an engineer. The family is active at
Northview Bible Church in
Spokane, Washington, where they make their home.

GREG MIRACLE is the president and owner of Espresso Source
International and the Great
Lakes Coffee Roasting Company. He and his wife have two children, and they
live in
Beverly Hills (Detroit), Michigan.

LEANNE FRITZ MITCHELL has served in full-time ministry since 1993 at
Hope Evangelical
Free Church in Springfield, Illinois, overseeing visual arts, drama, music
and worship. She and
her husband, David, have three children. They reside in Springfield.

KEITH MONTGOMERY earned a master's degree in choral directing from
the University of
Washington and, for 13 years, has been on the faculty of Cairo
American College in Egypt, where he is chair of the Department of
Performing Arts. Keith is
active in international festivals and concerts in Europe and the Middle
East, and will be guest
conductor of the International Middle School Honor Choir in Stavangar,
Norway, in May 2001. He
lives in Cairo.

RICHARD MOREY attended graduate school at Colorado State University
from 1985 to 1990,
and earned a master's degree and doctorate in counseling psychology. He is
now a staff
psychologist at Atascadero State Hospital in Atascadero, California, has an
independent practice in psychology, and is a graduate instructor of
psychology at
Chapman University. He lives in
Atascadero with his wife
and four children.

TIMOTHY RUE and SANDRA STEVEN RUE live in Columbia City,
Indiana, and work with
Centro Familiar Vida Nueva, a Hispanic church-plant outreach of Village
Green Free Methodist
Church in Fort Wayne. They enjoy raising and homeschooling their seven
children.

LAUREL LEWIS RUSHING is homeschooling her three children while also
working part-time as
the head of the billing department for a CPA firm. She writes, "I love my
life!" Laurel, her
husband, Nathan, and their family live in Olathe, Kansas.

JENNIFER TOWNLEY SIDE-BOTTOM and her husband, Daniel, have been
missionaries in Pretoria,
South Africa, for two years. Dan is developing a Bible institute using
correspondence courses,
and helping to oversee church outreach and growth. Jennifer helps in their
church's music
ministry, teaches children's church, and leads a women's Bible study.
They have one daughter.

LAURIE CARDOZA SMITH works with her husband, Mark, who is the pastor
of Grace Community
Church in Flagstaff, Arizona. Laurie teaches piano students, coordinates
children's ministry and
plans weekly worship.

LISA THERRELL is a wilderness manager for the U.S. Forest Service
in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness of Washington state. She enjoys gardening
with her husband, Rich
Haydon; teaching; yoga; and participating at Faith Lutheran Church,
including in the Earth
Stewardship group. Lisa and Rich live in Leavenworth, Washington.

LINDA CARLSON UHRICH has returned to teaching after 11 years at home
with her three
children. She teaches kindergarten part-time at King's Schools in Seattle.
Her husband,
STEPHEN UHRICH '79, has worked as an electrician for 22 years. The
couple attends
Seattle's Aurora Church of the Nazarene and lives in Kenmore, Washington.

DOROTHY CARLSON VANNESS teaches kindergarten part-time at Bellevue
Christian School in
Bellevue, Washington. She and her husband, Larry, are involved in many
activities with their
two sons. The VanNess family lives in Kirkland, Washington.

CLIFF BROWN earned a master's degree in social work from the
University of Washington.
He works as a counselor in the Seattle Public Schools, and has a consulting
business with
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS). Cliff is
also a basketball
coach at Seattle's Franklin High School. He lives in Seattle.

BILL BURNETT is a captain with Argosy Cruises,
and RUTH PAULS BURNETT is a stay-at-home mother to their four
children. The family lives
in Medina, Washington.

LISA DRESS is a loan consultant with AllBanc Mortgage in Seattle,
advising borrowers in
Washington and other states. A Seattle resident, she spends time in the SPU
weight room after
work.

JOHN FORSYTH has worked with Young
Life since 1993.
His wife, LISA JEFFERRIES FORSYTH '87, is a substitute teacher and is
active in Bible
Study Fellowship and the "Moms in Touch" prayer group. John and Lisa have
three sons and live
in SeaTac, Washington.

SARAH GARMIRE lives in Anderson Island, Washington. She teaches adult
basic education and
English as a second language for Pierce College at McNeil Island Corrections
Center, a men's
long-term minimum security facility.

MARCIE HARPE HARTZELL recently quit teaching private piano lessons to
concentrate on
homeschooling her three children. She is also active in her church's music
ministry. Her husband,
Rodney, is a Web developer and the family lives in Seattle.

PAM HAIGHT HORTON and husband JEFF HORTON '85 celebrated the
birth of their fourth
child in June 2000. Jeff is the associate pastor of Warm Beach Free
Methodist Church. The couple
lives in Stanwood, Washington.

ERIN JACKSON KELLY is a sales director with Mary Kay Cosmetics.
Her husband, ROBERT KELLY '86, received a master of arts degree in
music performance from
Washington State University and currently works in the computer industry.
They live in Phoenix,
Arizona.

LISA KOLBERG celebrated the birth of a son in June 2000. She lives in
Seattle.

DAN MATTAUSCH is president of the International Association of
Collectors and Students of Antique Lighting. He has
restored numerous house museums for the National Park Service, and his work
on gas lighting has
been documented in newspapers, cinema and television. Dan has researched gas
lighting patents at
the Library of Congress and the Smith-sonian National Museum of American
History and is
internationally recognized as the foremost collector of American gas light
technology. He and his
wife, NANCY ANUNSON MATTAUSCH, live in Washington, D.C.

HEIDI KLIPPERT MENDRO is a Creative Memories consultant and registrar
for Arlington High
School, where her husband, BEN MENDRO, teaches German and coaches
Hi-Q and wrestling.
They have two children and live in Arlington, Washington.

KRISTA NEEL is an admissions counselor at High Tech Institute
in Phoenix, Arizona. She writes, "I own a house in Vancouver, Washington. I
love to travel and
have done a great deal this year."

REBECCA ROWE NEFF and her husband, Dennis, live in Glenwood, Iowa,
with their three
children. Rebecca starred as Annie in Annie, Get Your Gun in March
2000 at the
Mills Masquers Theatre. She was also the music director for an all-children
musical, Bugsy Malone,
at the same theatre. She's currently writing a musical called Prairie
Hearts and Wills.

DOUGLAS NEWTON is a senior systems analyst developing software at Milliman & Robertson,
an actuarial consulting firm. He and his wife, Lorinda, have a young son.
The family lives in
Kirkland, Washington.

HEIDI VAN DE WALKER RIDDLE is a homemaker and is active in her
children's school and
church. Her husband, Darrill, is a senior manufacturing engineer for the
Roper Corporation in
Lafayette, Georgia. They have two children and live in Ringold, Georgia.

CAROL RIDENHOUR and her husband, JOSEPH RIDENHOUR '95, have
two children and live
in Shoreline, Washington. Carol is a charge nurse in the Orthopaedic Clinic
at Seattle's Harborview
Medical Center.
She is also a major in the United States Air
Force Reserve
assigned to the Aeromedical Staging Squadron.

STEPHEN ROOT and SALLY SCHRECENGOST ROOT '85 own and operate a
Schlotzsky's Deli
in Carson City, Nevada, where they live. Stephen is also head of technical
operations at
Skyline Computer Corporation
in Reno.

MICHELLE POTTHOFF SHULA teaches kindergarten in Puyallup, Washington.
Her husband, John,
teaches high school in Fife. They have three sons and live in Puyallup.

KAREN STOKES graduated from the University of Washington School of
Medicine in 1991 and
completed her residency in anesthesiology at the University of
Washington
Medical Center in 1995. She writes that she is "hoping to soon do
overseas volunteer work in
medicine." Karen lives in Boise, Idaho.

MARIA HOEK ANDONIAN lives with her husband, Kirk, and four children
in Gig Harbor,
Washington.

MARCY SMITH BRIGHTON married Mark Brighton in 1993, has two children
and is expecting a
third in December. Although primarily a stay-at-home mother, Marcy is also a
labor and delivery
nurse at the University of
Washington
Medical Center. She lives in Seattle.

CHARLES "CHUCK" COCKBURN is a professional photographer, specializing
in landscape scenic
images. His wife, Julie, is a graphic designer and production artist. They
live in Sunriver,
Oregon, with their two dogs.

KRISTINE TOM CRABBE has been with
J.C. Penney
as a senior department manager for 10 years. She has a young son and lives
in Honolulu,
Hawaii. She writes, "I would love to have SPUians come and visit!"

DON DALZIEL earned a master's degree in education in September 1999
at City University in
Seattle. He is now in his 10th year of teaching at Shorecrest High School in
Shoreline,
Washington. Don heads the Health and Physical Education Department at
Shorecrest, and is the
head girls' basketball coach, and the head boys' and girls' track coach. He
and his wife,
Mindy, live in Shoreline.

SUZANNE EMERY lives in San Jose, Costa Rica, and is working as a
missionary with the
Latin American Mission for an organization called Roblealto Child Care
Association.
She writes, "I love it!"

SHERRI ANDERSON FROTHING-HAM is a stay-at-home mom to "a very active
3-year-old son."
She and husband NEALE FROTHINGHAM '90 are expecting their second
child
in 2001. They live in Ephrata, Washington.

SCOTT GODWIN has been in business development at Microsoft
for five years. BECKY MCRAE GODWIN is a stay-at-home mother to their
two children. They
write, "We enjoy spending time playing at our Lake Wenatchee cabin with
friends and family." The
Godwins live in Redmond, Washington.

KURT GOERING works for AT&T
Wireless in the Business
Security group. He and his wife, DEBBIE OLSHEFSKY GOERING '92, live
in Monroe, Washington, and
are active in Cascade Community Church, where Kurt serves on the worship
team and Debbie is
planning the annual women's retreat. They have one child and are expecting a
second in March 2001.

BRENDA CULVER GONYER and her husband, Mark, live in Kalamazoo,
Michigan. Brenda attended
Western Michigan University from 1991 to 1993, and then taught high school
until 1997. She is
now a stay-at-home mother to her three children.

ALLISA SMITH HAWKS spent 10 years as the assistant director for
Rotary's Operation First
Harvest, marketing and fund raising to gather surplus produce. In 1998, she
became the marketing
and development director at Tacoma Little Theatre in Tacoma, Washington.
Allisa has since left
the theatre to become an independent contractor. She lives in Tacoma.

SHARON IVERSON HEDMAN taught middle school social studies for eight
years and is now a
stay-at-home mom to her son. She and husband NICK HEDMAN '94 are
expecting another baby
in February 2001. They live in Puyallup, Washington.

SCOTT ISAAK manages the family farm in Coulee City, Washington. He is
also the head
coach for a local girls' high school basketball team. He and his wife,
JEANNIE HALLE ISAAK '90,
have three sons and reside in Coulee City.

LISA SHARPE JACKSON was recently awarded the Cox Communications
"Excellence in Education"
and "Teacher of the Year" awards. She teaches first and second grades at
Scottsdale Christian
Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona. She and her husband, Paul, also run Dynamic Labs,
an engineering and analysis company.

JANELLE SAMMONS KANZ completed her master's degree in education at
SPU this past summer,
specializing in curriculum and instruction and reading/language arts. She
teaches second grade
students in the Renton School District. Janelle and her husband, Mike, have
one daughter. They
live in Renton, Washington.

JOY KENNELLY produced the Fourth Annual Short Pictures International
Film Festival in
Hollywood, California, this past fall. Held October 1213, SPIFF featured
more than 40 short
films from countries including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Russia and
Northern Ireland.
Two weeks earlier, SPIFF also hosted a preparatory celebration, which
included Hollywood agents,
actors, producers and other industry professionals. Joy is SPIFF's founder.

KIMBERLY JOHNSON LOPEZ is a stay-at-home mother of two. Her husband,
CHRISTOPHER LOPEZ '92,
is the vice president of Howland Homes. They recently built a new home in
Edmonds, Washington.

ELIZABETH KEELAN LYNCH works at Old
Dominion University
in Norfolk, Virginia. She and her husband, Bruce, live in Norfolk.

LISA MCCHESNEY lives in La Habra, California, and teaches middle
school in a Christian
school in East Los Angeles.

SHELLY RANDOL MILLER writes, "I worked full-time as an OB registered
nurse until the
birth of my twin boys in '97, then part-time until the birth of son number 3
in '99. Now I am
a stay-home mom of three active boys." Shelly resides in Sioux Falls, South
Dakota.

JANICE NORTHROP is earning a master's degree in education at SPU. She
teaches kindergarten
at Penny Creek Elementary in the Everett School District and writes she is
"enjoying being an
aunt to two nephews and two nieces." Janice lives in Mill Creek, Washington.

BRIAN OAKS lives in Seattle with his wife, Stephanie, and two
children. He owns The
Madison House, a film and media scoring company, and is an
advisor/consultant in the high-tech
industry.

KIM GEYER OSGOOD is an elementary school teacher, grades 13. She has
three children and
lives in Woodinville, Washington.

SHELLY RAKETTY has a master's degree in education and writes she is
"working as a
counselor at H.M. Jackson High School in the Everett School District and
loving it!" She lives
in Everett, Washington.

TROY RHOADARMER earned a doctorate in optical sciences from the
University of Arizona
in 1999. He now works for the U.S. Air
Force Research Laboratory,
doing research in adaptive optics. He and his wife, JENNIFER HAWKINSON
RHOADARMER '96,
have two children and live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

ALISA LAUBY ROEBKE taught junior high school for four years and
married Todd Roebke in
1992. They now have two children and live in Marysville, Washington. She
writes, "I love being
a stay-at-home mom and am never bored!"

BARBARA CAGUE SMITH left the Northwest in November for Mooresville,
North Carolina.
Before her move, she had been providing health care to incarcerated
juveniles at Echo Glen
Children's Center in Snoqualmie, Washington.

DARLENE SMITH has taught third grade for eight years at Sultan
Elementary School in
Sultan, Washington. She lives in Edmonds, Washington.

SUZANNE STAPELY was a medical missionary in Guatemala with the Agros
Foundation from
1998-2000. She is now a graduate student at Regent College
and a part-time registered nurse. In September, she married DAN BARTHOLD
'69, a builder
with Habitat for Humanity. They
honeymooned in Cork,
Ireland, and live in Stanwood, Washington.

KAREN HARRISON THOMPSON and husband DAVID THOMPSON '90 live in
Spokane, Washington,
where she is a stay-at-home mom with three children. She is active at
church and in her local
MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group.

BILL TURNER and SHARLYN WARNER TURNER '90 live with their
infant daughter in
Seattle.

STEPHEN VIDANO and ANDREA HORN VIDANO '92 live in Colorado
Springs, Colorado, with
their young son. Stephen is the vice president and director of production
for the film studio,
IMS Productions.

JANE COLLIER WERTENBERGER is a math teacher at Spanaway Lake High
School in Washington's
Bethel School District. She has two daughters and lives in Puyallup,
Washington.

MICHELE WESLANDER earned a master's degree in optics from the
University of Rochester in New York in 1994. Now a resident of Alexandria,
Virginia, Michele is a systems engineer at Scitor Corporation.

SUSAN BANGS-THOM is a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit at Virginia Mason Medical Center
in Seattle, where she makes her home.

MICHELLE GREEN BEST is attending Baylor University,
working toward a master's degree in educational psychology. Her husband,
RYAN BEST '95,
attends the law school at Baylor. They live in Waco, Texas.

KENNETH BRADFORD is a senior account executive at eJiva,
a company that enables businesses to integrate their services with the
latest technology. He
and his wife, Stacy, have a 1-year-old son and live near Washington, D.C.,
in Reston, Virginia.

DAVID BROBECK taught English in Costa Rica for a year and now teaches
English at
Laguna Beach High School, the high school from which he graduated. In 1998,
David married his
longtime girlfriend, Mele. They live in Aliso Viejo, California.

ROBERT BROOKE is a middle school counselor at Sequim Middle School in
Sequim, Washington.
He and his wife, Molly, operate a catering business and retail cookie
business in addition to
their education careers. They have two sons.

TED BROWNING has been a software engineer at ATL Ultrasound
for 10 years. Wife LYNEE BROWN '92 is a childbirth educator at
Seattle's Swedish Hospital. She is
also a "doula," assisting women through
labor and childbirth.
The couple has three children and live in Shoreline, Washington.

JASON DOMER married Sherry Conley, a Pennsylvania native, in July. He
writes that he
"became an instant father of Johnny, Sherry's son from her first marriage.
God is faithful in
the joys and hardships of life!" Jason and his family live in Hillsboro,
Oregon.

JEFF EDGBERT and his wife, ROBYN SMITH EDGBERT, live in
Redmond, Washington. Jeff
works for Tyee Asset Strategies, a Seattle wealth management firm, and
supervises trading and
operations. Robyn is a database engineer for the ESPN.com
group at the Walt Disney Internet Group in Seattle.

NICHOLAS HARDMAN is currently stationed at Edwards Air Force Base,
where he attends the USAF Test Pilot School. He will soon be stationed in
Florida with the
40th Flight Test Squadron. Till then, he and his wife reside in Edwards,
California.

AMY HITCHENS lives in Berkeley, California, and is in her third year
of a master of
divinity degree program at the Pacific School
of Religion.
She also works closely with Central American Refugees and Immigration in the
Bay Area as a
refugee rights assistant.

HEATHER HOUSER has lived in San Diego, California, since graduation.

JEFF HUDSON and AMBER WARTHEN HUDSON live with their infant
son in Everett,
Washington.

DANIELLE DOMERGUE LAMSMA and husband MATT LAMSMA '95 moved
back to the Northwest
after living in Texas for four years. Matt now works at Pacific Lutheran University
in Tacoma, Washington, where the couple makes their home.

JEFF LAYTON and KRISTI LEKSEN LAYTON '98 backpacked through
New Zealand and
Australia for six months following their January 1999 marriage. Today Jeff
is an account
executive for an advertising agency that works with nonprofit agencies.
Kristi is a pregnancy
counselor for an adoption agency. They live in Poulsbo, Washington.

LINDA KIM LYONS completed her master's degree in education at SPU in
June 2000. She
teaches fifth grade at Fairview Christian School in Seattle. After the new
year, Linda was
diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She is currently undergoing
chemotherapy treatment
at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. Linda and her husband, Ken, ask for
your prayers during
this difficult time.

TERRA PENNINGTON MITTS and husband SEAN MITTS '95 live in
Plano, Texas. They
recently left the U.S. Air Force after five
years of service,
including a two-year tour in Tokyo, Japan.

POPPY ERSKINE ROBERTS married Pennsylvania native Mark Roberts in
1998. She teaches
kindergarten at Bellevue Christian School in Bellevue, Washington. The
couple lives in Everett.

ERIN LUNDIN ROCHA and ABRAHAM ROCHA '97 live in Post Falls,
Idaho, with their
infant son. Abraham is in his final year of law school at Gonzaga University.

TARAH PETERSEN SMIGUN is in her second year as the promotions
coordinator for Seattle's
Talk Radio 570 KVI, owned by Fisher
Broadcasting. Her husband,
Geoffrey, is employed by Verizon Wireless, working on the company's internal
Web system. They
live with their four cats in Issaquah, Washington.

SARAH NEWTON STEWART is enrolled at the University of Washington
in the master of nursing degree program, family nurse practitioner
specialty. She and husband
CAMERON STEWART '99 live in Edmonds, Washington.

BEN STIMMEL lives in Pasadena, California, and attends Fuller Seminary,
where he's working on a master's degree in marriage and family counseling.
When finished, he
plans to move back to Vancouver, Washington.

"ALL FIRED UP" FOR HOMECOMING!

What has you all fired up these days? Politics? Gasoline prices? The Super
Bowl?

Why not bring all that pent-up energy to the biggest Seattle Pacific
University celebration of the year? Homecoming and Family Weekend 2001,
February 1-3,
offers a full slate of events, including:

Alumnus of the Year Chapel and Luncheon. Join alumni, faculty and
staff as they honor Major
General G.T. Gunhus '62, chief of chaplains for the U.S. Army.

Class Reunions. Members of the Classes of 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971,
1976, 1981, 1986, 1991 and
1996 are invited to special gatherings in your honor.

President's Luncheon. Hear from President Philip Eaton about SPU's
growing influence. This event
includes special alumni award presentations and student performers.

Student Talent Show. The best, the brightest -- and the bravest --
strut their stuff in this
annual spectacle of sight and sound.

Falcon Basketball. The Falcon women engage Northwest Nazarene and the
Falcon men battle BYU
Hawaii in a rematch of last year's conference championship game. Halftime
features the
crowning of the Homecoming King and Queen.

The Elephant Man. This theatre production is a moving exploration of
the human condition.

An "All Fired Up!" brochure with a full schedule of Homecoming and Family
Weekend 2001 events
was mailed in early January. If you need a copy, or have questions, please
call 206/281-ALUM.
To view a detailed schedule of Homecoming events, visit the SPU Web site.

A Missionary Who Works With His
Hands

How does someone who's not a minister, a doctor, or a Bible translator find
a vocation on the
mission field?

As an undergraduate at Seattle Pacific College in the late 1950s, Edgar was
interested in
full-time Christian service, "but all my natural skills and interests and
abilities ... did not
appear to lend themselves to ministry." Skilled in mathematics, he chose to
study civil
engineering, and earned his B.S. degree from Washington State University
after completing SPC's
"pre-engineering" program.

With nearly 40 years of design and construction management experience under
his belt, Edgar
has worked on some impressive, high-profile projects. Asked to name a few,
he nonchalantly
mentions Interstate 405 and the Boeing Company's plant in Everett,
Washington.

But a note of excitement creeps into his voice when he talks about building
an airstrip in
Guatemala, or a hospital in Quito, Ecuador. Edgar, you see, found a way to
combine his
profession with his love for God. Since 1970 he's worked with Texas-based
Missionary Tech Team,
which provides planning, design and management for construction projects for
missions and
ministry organizations around the globe. For much of that time he and his
family have lived in
Quito, although his work also took him to China and Liberia.

Most civil engineers describe their work in terms of cubic yards of concrete
or tons of steel.
Edgar talks about felling trees and cutting his own lumber, or salvaging
metal from a wrecked
plane to build a bridge. He considers the hospital in Quito his most
rewarding project -- not
because of its design or capacity, but because it's a missionary hospital
that averages 100
decisions for Christ every month.

Another successful building project began in 1967, when Edgar married Irene
Pettengill '64,
an elementary school teacher whom he got to know at an SPC alumni banquet.
For the Edgars,
Seattle Pacific is a family tradition. All three of their sons (Jay Edgar
'90, Brent Edgar '92
and Peter Edgar '98) and a daughter-in-law (Raedeana Schliebe Edgar '92)
graduated from SPU.
Both of Irene Edgar's parents and several of her sisters also attended, and
her grandfather was
C. Hoyt Watson, the college's third president.

Edgar shows no signs of slowing down. He's supervising construction on a new
facility for the
Nashville Rescue Mission in Tennessee -- and looking forward to wherever his
work takes him next. Distance prevents him from
attending his 40-year reunion at SPU, but he sends heartfelt greetings to
his classmates.

In the Air and on the Ground,
Alum Seeks New Challenges

When his rented Cessna Skyhawk touched down in Bennington, Vermont, last
July, Robert Schaper '86
had fulfilled a long-held dream: He'd landed an airplane in each of the 50
states.

The achievement didn't happen overnight -- or without adversity. Schaper has
logged more than
2,550 flight hours in the 33 years since he obtained his first pilot's
license. He's survived
two crashes and five other emergencies. And he's living proof that it's
never too late to
achieve one's goals.

Take graduation and marriage, for example. In 1960 Schaper was enrolled at
Seattle Pacific and
engaged to Carol King '63. But she wanted to be a missionary; he planned to
go into business.
They broke off the engagement, and Schaper dropped out of school. More than
20 years later he
returned to earn a B.A. in psychology. A few years after that, he and King
reconnected. They
married in 1994; she teaches third grade in the Highline School District and
serves as copilot
on some of his flights.

When he's not in the air, Schaper puts his degree to use as a social worker
for the Washington
State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) in Seattle. He
counsels some of the city's
most troubled adults -- "my clients are one-third felons, one-third addicts,
and one-third mental
health cases" -- and tries to get them into treatment programs. Because he
works for a
government agency, Schaper says, he isn't allowed to share his faith with
his clients "unless
they bring it up -- but occasionally they do. And then I tell them that I'm
a Christian, and we
have some interesting conversations."

Dramatic successes are hard to come by in Schaper's line of work. Many of
his clients relapse or
drop out of treatment. But, he admits, "You touch more lives than you
realize. Most of them
don't come back and tell you, but occasionally you hear back about one of
them, and that's
kind of nice."

Even before he became a social worker, Schaper regularly flew to Walla Walla
to visit inmates
at the Washington State Penitentiary. "We should touch the unlovely," says
the longtime member
of the SPU Society of Fellows.

"Because of my belief that Christianity should help the ills of society, I
fit in this job that
I sort of fell into."

What's next for Schaper? Well, so far he's flown to only four Canadian
provinces. Look for that
to change soon.

Some Things Change - and Some
Things Stay the Same

Habits you pick up in college can be hard to break after you leave. But
sometimes that's a good
thing.

Rachel LeMieux White '91 has at least two such habits. One began in 1989,
when she and six other
SPU students joined a discipleship group led by Marta Bennett, then
associate director of campus
ministries. White still treasures the relationships she built in that group,
which met weekly
for two years: "Small groups are such a wonderful way to fellowship and
learn about God, as we
learn to love each other in spite of our differences and imperfections."

It's no surprise, then, that she's currently involved in two ministries
built around small groups.
The first is Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS), an international organization
that provides support
and encouragement for moms with young children. (She qualifies for
membership by virtue of being
the mother of one-year-old twin girls, Taryn and Karis.) Nearly 100 women
belong to her MOPS
chapter, and she leads a subgroup of 12. The chapter meets at New Life
Center, the Foursquare
church White attends in Everett, but she estimates that half the members "do
not have a home
church -- so it's really an outreach."

Rachel and her husband, Greg White '77, a mental health professional, are
also helping to plan
and implement a network of fellowship and Bible study groups for people who
attend New Life
Center. "We're going to start small but start well," she says. Eventually,
they hope to involve
80 percent of the congregation in small groups. A mathematics and secondary
education
major at SPU, White also provides bookkeeping services for home-based
businesses in Everett.

The other habit White acquired in college is volunteering for Esperanza, a
mission on the
west coast of Vancouver Island that works primarily with the Nuu-Chah-Nulth
(Nootka) native
population. White first went to Esperanza on a summer SPRINT team in 1989.
She worked there
full-time after graduation, and returns at least once a year.

Ten years after White graduated, the eight women in her SPU discipleship
group still keep in
close touch -- despite being scattered as far afield as Canada, India,
Africa and Great Britain.
Speaking of friends from SPU, White plans to attend her 10-year class
reunion in February:
"I signed up for the brunch and am excited to see whoever else might be
there."

Sven "Gus" Peterson took a break from his job at the new Experience Music
Project (EMP) near the
Seattle Center. The 1998 Seattle Pacific University graduate wanted to
practice guitar chords
in anticipation of leading singing at a Christian summer camp. He entered
the EMP Sound Lab -- a
high-tech studio that lets visitors jam like rock stars -- and picked up a
guitar.

Then someone else entered the lab. "He was the bass player for Metallica,"
says Peterson. At
the EMP to perform for its grand opening, Jason Newsted selected a nearby
guitar and started
playing. "I just tried to keep up!" Peterson remembers, laughing.

As visitor services supervisor for the EMP, Peterson supervises 70 employees
and volunteers as
they assist streams of sightseers in billionaire Paul Allen's rock and roll
museum. It's not
his first connection to Seattle's celebrity scene.

Peterson has taken his theatre degree to three notable Seattle
venues: the Kingdome,
Safeco Field and now the popular EMP. A work-study job as a Kingdome tour
guide led Peterson
into a full-time position as events coordinator at the Kingdome and then
Safeco Field, where
the Mariners fan got to "live out a dream." Then the EMP called.

Only days before its June 2000 grand opening, he began work. "It was like
being on the other
side of the Academy Awards," says Peterson. Opening weekend included a
concert by Grammy
Award-winning singer Sheryl Crowe, with Steven Spiel-berg and Dan Akroyd in
the audience.

Although not on stage himself now, Peterson credits SPU with preparing him
to move in
celebrity circles and supervise a large staff. Professor of Theatre James
Chapman "really
allowed us to be creative in our own right and learn how to present
ourselves," he says.

Three years with the theatre troupe University Players also helped. "That
taught me a lot
about leadership and how to be comfortable with yourself."